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Resolve has probably the best user manual of any software package I've used in my entire life. But with the addition of dedicated Fairlight, Fusion and Editing pages, having a monolithic PDF manual for everything has made the searchability of the manual all but useless, because of overlaps in terminology between the Color, Fusion and Edit pages.
For example, I have just started using the Fusion page, and wanted to do a simple search for how to zoom in and out of the main viewer. Typing "zoom" into the search field yielded 183 results, and it was difficult to weed out which of the hits were from the actual Fusion part of the manual, and not the Color or Edit portions of the manual.
That's obviously a simple example. Because of this I've gotten into the habit of foregoing the actual user manual, and just doing a Google search for the thing I'm looking for, and hope that some kind soul on a message board somewhere has answered the question already.
Splitting up each module into a separate manual would make things a lot easier to manage, and may even reduce the intimidation factor among some newbies who see a 2937 page user manual, and recoil in fear.
For example, I have just started using the Fusion page, and wanted to do a simple search for how to zoom in and out of the main viewer. Typing "zoom" into the search field yielded 183 results, and it was difficult to weed out which of the hits were from the actual Fusion part of the manual, and not the Color or Edit portions of the manual.
That's obviously a simple example. Because of this I've gotten into the habit of foregoing the actual user manual, and just doing a Google search for the thing I'm looking for, and hope that some kind soul on a message board somewhere has answered the question already.
Splitting up each module into a separate manual would make things a lot easier to manage, and may even reduce the intimidation factor among some newbies who see a 2937 page user manual, and recoil in fear.
Resolve Studio 18.0.2 / Decklink Mini Monitor / 14" 2021 Macbook Pro Max (macOS 12.5.1, M1 Max) / 32GB RAM